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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1988
DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, CHINA, TAIWAN, AUSTRALIA, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE U.S.A. INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VALUE TERMS BY 91 PER CENT, 59 PER CENT, 53 PER CENT, 49 PER CENT, 48 PER CENT, 46 PER CENT AND 42 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA ALSO INCREASED, BY 35 PER CENT AND 33 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE ARE MEASURED AT CURRENT PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES BETWEEN THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.
A SEPARATE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN AUGUST 1988 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY NOVEMBER 1988.
THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.
EXPORTS ΤΟ HONG KONG'S TEN MAJOR
COMPARING JANUARY TO AUGUST 1988 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS WERE RECORDED IN MOST MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.
THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $3,059 MILLION OR 55 PER CENT); PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES AND OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND CLOCKS (BY $2,286 MILLION OR 24 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $2,062 MILLION OR 22 PER CENT); AND TELECOMMUNCIATIONS AND SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1,340 MILLION OR 14 PER CENT).
DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING DECREASED BY $54 MILLION IN VALUE TERMS OR LESS THAN 0.5 PER CENT. DECREASES WERE ALSO RECORDED IN TEXTILES (BY$265 MILLION OR 3 PER CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (BY $260 MILLION OR 1 PER CENT).
TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS BY MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISION.
THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG'S TEN MAJOR SUPPLIERS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.
/COMPARING JANUARY